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banish

[ban-ish] / ˈbæn ɪʃ /


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More than that though, he vowed to banish factionalism from the party for good.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

Staring at the prospect of letting another seemingly insurmountable lead slip, Arsenal are desperate to banish those demons, having grappled with the tag over the past two decades.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2026

Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

Harry went back to the castle later that afternoon with Ron and Hermione, unable to banish the image of the happy expression on Hagrid’s whiskery face as he had imagined Harry winning the tournament.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

This World Cup win at least banishes one of Egypt's ghosts.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Daddy forces them to hand him their company and banishes Jimmy to the Latitude mailroom.

From Salon May 29, 2026

It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway galaxies to the smallest bacterium.

From Science Daily May 23, 2024

This is the moment each year in which I go wild with asparagus, kale, peas, dill — anything that banishes the blasé gray of a New York winter.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2023

And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Orpheus tries to rescue his love, but his faith in her is tested on their return to the top — if he turns back to see if she’s there, she’ll be banished to Hadestown forever.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Its pendant is a statue of Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence, banished from New York’s City Council Chamber in 2021 because of what the exhibition calls “his history as an enslaver.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Now she has been banished along with fruit and vegetable sellers to a vacant lot with lower foot traffic, her turnover roughly halving as a result.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Any suggestion the 12 months of white-ball success leading to the Under-19 World Cup final knock were some sort of fluke for Sooryavanshi has been banished at this year's Indian Premier League.

From BBC May 7, 2026

Under his influence courage was quickened and fear banished, at any rate for the moment.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Rickover likened himself to Attila the Hun and had young officers conduct job interviews on chairs with specially shortened front legs, banishing them to a closet if they disappointed him.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

In case you’ve forgotten where “Stranger Things” left us, Vecna revealed that Eleven accidentally created him by banishing him to the Upside Down.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2025

But the proposed move has largely been perceived as banishing the journalist to a TV backwater where viewers and advertisers dollars are scant.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2025

I was more upset about the bike than I was about Erma banishing us.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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